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Media Enable Former Bushies To Rewrite History On Bush Egypt and “Freedom In The Arab World“
Several Bush administration officials have looked to the recent crisis in Egypt in another attempt to rehabilitate former President George W. Bush's image. In a January 30 Washington Post …
Largest Crowds Yet Demand Change in Egypt
Cairo - Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians poured into Tahrir Square on Tuesday in scenes of jubilation and protest that cut across Egypt’s entrenched lines of piety, class and …
Tea Party Judge Roger Vinson “Borrows Heavily” From Family Research Council To Invalidate Health Law
The most surprising part of Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling was his argument that the individual mandate was not severable from the health care law as a whole and must …
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Egyptian Protesters Plan March to Mubarak’s Doorstep
Cairo - In the fight to save his embattled regime from a popular revolt, U.S.-allied president Hosni Mubarak's administration has severed the phone and Internet, rounded up journalists, closed …
Perpetual Pessimism at Central Bank
Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, is sounding hawkish about inflation again, indicating in interviews that the bank will raise interest rates if officials see the …
Nick Turse | Overkill: Future Weapons, Future Wars, and the New Arms Race
In the future, the power of magnetism will be harnessed to make today’s high explosives seem feeble, “guided bullets” will put the current crop of snipers to shame, and …
Obama Looking Beyond Mubarak
Washington - With new anti-government demonstrations expected in Cairo and other Egyptian cities Tuesday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama appears to have concluded that the 29- year …
Eugene Robinson | Push Has Now Come to Shove
Washington - The Obama administration has done a creditable job of gently edging Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak toward some sort of gilded exile. Now it's time to push. Hard. …